Research

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education how much his Department spent on research and development in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and how much he plans to spend in (i) 2012-13, (ii) 2013-14 and (iii) 2014-15.

Elizabeth Truss: The Department for Education spent £317 million on research and evaluation in 2008-09, £27.7 million in 2009-10, £24.7 million in 2010-11 and £12.1 million in 2011-12. The Department's annual research budget for 2012-13 is £8.5 million; we expect it to be £9.5 million in 2013-14 and 2014-15. The Department funds evaluations from individual policy programme budgets. At the moment we have £2.4 million and £1.2 million committed to evaluations which we expect to continue into 2013-14 and 2014-15 respectively.